IMAGOLOGY

TH E CU LTU RAL CO N STRU CTIO N

AN D LITERARY REPRESEN TATIO N
O F N AT IO N A L CH A R AC TE RS
A CRITICAL SURVEY EDITED BY
M ANFRED B ELLER
AND
JOEP L EERSSEN
Vol. 13 of the series “Studia Imagologica”
(series editors; Hugo Dyserinck & Joep Leerssen)

How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by

historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive
conventions?
Imagology is an inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and
national, cultural or ethnic stereotypes. Running to almost 500 pages, it contains
120 articles (each with extensive bibliographies for further critical reading) by 73
contributors. Its three parts offer:
[1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in
European literatures and cultures over many centuries;
[2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations
traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities;
[3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and
scholarly disciplines.

Imagology is intended both for students and for senior academic researchers. It
facilitates a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and
poetics of national stereotypes. It also deepens our understanding and analytical
perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive
cross-referencing.

Sample articles can be found on the website http://www.hum.uva/images

(click through under “handbook”)
 CONTENTS

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY ARTICLES

Manfred Beller: Perception, image, imagology

Joep Leerssen: Imagology: History and method
Wilfried Nippel: Ethnic images in classical antiquity
Peter Hoppenbrouwers: Medieval peoples imagined
Joep Leerssen: The poetics and anthropology of national character

PART 2: IMAGES OF NATIONS SURVEYED

Africa (János Riesz) Hungarians (László Marácz)

America: Native North-Americans Iceland (Sumarliði Ísleifsson)
(Sämi Ludwig) India (Michael Gottlob)
America: Native South-Americans Indochina (Emmanuelle Radar)
(Peter Mason) Indonesia (Joep Leerssen)
America: United States (Peter Firchow) Iran (Natalia Tornesello)
Arabs (Joep Leerssen) Irish (Joep Leerssen)
Australia (John Stephens) Italians (Manfred Beller)
Austrians (Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Japan (Ian Littlewood)
Manfred Mittermayer) Jews (Evelien Gans & Joep Leerssen)
Balkans (Ivana Živan…eviƒ-Sekeruš) Latin America (José Manuel López de
Belgium (Tom Verschaffel) Abiada)
Canada (Martina Seifert) Maghreb (Ieme van der Poel)
Caucasus (Michael Kemper) Norwegians (Ulrike Spring)
Celts (Joep Leerssen) Poles (André Gerrits & Joep Leerssen)
Central Asia (Deliash Balakaeva) Polynesia (Joep Leerssen)
China (Irmy Schweiger) Portuguese (Simon Kuin)
Creoles (Kathleen Gyssels) Romanians (Dennis Deletant)
Czechs (Carlos Reijnen & Joep Leerssen) Russians (Bruno Naarden & Joep Leerssen)
Danes (Inge Adriansen) Scots (Murray Pittock)
Dutch (Ellen Krol) Serbs (Pavle Sekeruš)
English (Menno Spiering) Slavs (Bruno Naarden)
Finns (Pasi Saukkonen) Spaniards (José Manuel López de Abiada)
French (Ruth Florack) Swedes (Lutz Rühling)
Germans (Manfred Beller) Swiss (Peter Schnyder & Manfred Beller)
Greeks (Gregory Paschalidis) Tibet (Joep Leerssen)
'Gypsies' (Jean Kommers) Turkey (Nedret Kuran-Burço—lu)
 PART 3: RELEVANT CONCEPTS, RELATED DISCIPLINES

Anthropology (Raymond Corbey) Memory (Ann Rigney)

Barbarian (Manfred Beller) Mentality (Joep Leerssen)
Body (Elena Agazzi) Migration literature (Aglaia Blioumi &
Cartography (Michael Wintle) Manfred Beller)
Centre/periphery (Joep Leerssen) Monument (Annie Jourdan)
Character (dramatic) (Ton Hoenselaars) Myth (Manfred Beller)
Character (moral) (Joep Leerssen) Nation, ethnie, people (Joep Leerssen)
Character (narrative) (Ann Rigney) National history visualized (Monika Flacke)
Children's literature (Emer O'Sullivan) Nationalism (Joep Leerssen)
Cinema (Frank Degler) North/South (Astrid Arndt)
Cliché (Manfred Beller) Orientalism (Bernd Thum)
Climate (Manfred Beller) Patriotism (Joep Leerssen)
Colonialism (János Riesz) Perspective, point of view (Manfred Beller)
Comics (Achim Hölter) Physiognomy (Elena Agazzi)
Comparison (Joep Leerssen) Postcolonialism (János Riesz)
Cosmopolitanism (Peter Goßens) Prejudice (Manfred Beller)
Discourse (Ann Rigney) Primitivism (Joep Leerssen)
East/West (Manfred Beller) Race (Maarten Derksen)
Encyclopedia (Manfred Beller) Region (Joep Leerssen)
Ethnocentrism, eurocentrism (Joep Leerssen) Representation (Ann Rigney)
Exoticism (Joep Leerssen) Schoolbooks (Minna Maijala)
Foreigner (Corinna Albrecht) Semiotics (Ann Rigney)
Gender (Ginette Verstraete) Social psychology (Manfred Beller)
Hero (Raul Calzoni) Sociology (Nico Wilterdink)
Honour/shame (Joep Leerssen) Stereotype (Manfred Beller)
Identity/alterity/hybridity (Joep Leerssen) Symbol (Annie Jourdan)
Image (Joep Leerssen) Toleration/intolerance (Manfred Beller)
Imagination, imaginary (Stefan Scherer) Topos (Manfred Beller)
Intercultural management (Joep Leerssen) Tourism (Rossana Bonadei &
Irony (Christoph Deupmann) Federica Frediani)
Literature (Joep Leerssen) Travel writing (Albert Meier)
Mass media (Udo Göttlich) Type, typicality (Joep Leerssen)
Mediator (Thomas Keller) Visual arts (Thijs Weststeijn)

PART 4: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX

A: Bibliographical instruments
B: History, theory and methods
C: Interdisciplinary positionings
 Imagology
The cultural construction and literary representation of national characters
A critical survey

edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen

Amsterdam/New York, NY 2007. XVI, 476 pp. (Studia Imagologica, 13)

ISBN: 978-90-420-2317-8 Bound €100,–
ISBN: 978-90-420-2318-5 Paperback €45,–

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